Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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The fun part of all this hooplah is that society still hasn't twigged that programmers are making $multi-million and even $multi-billion decisions on a regular basis.
Even more fun is that programmers haven't twigged, either.
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I won't be using passkeys any time soon. https://me.micahrl.com/blog/concerns-about-passkeys/
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@xgranade @emma whenever silicon valley tries to push one of these "the service provider tells the user how to use their computer"/"only my friends can join the treehouse" standards, I go back to the old story about Stallman's malfunctioning printer and the manufacturer who wouldn't let him fix it.
The entire POINT of open source was to prevent the manufacturer from holding such kind of power over the user. A whitelist-based compatibility is not an open standard, it's just business collussion.
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Same.
Also since #passkeys are going to wind up bound to a phone, and the phones of unhoused people are frequently stolen (including by cops conducting violent sweeps of encampments) that's going to make it more difficult for them to access all the services which can now only be accessed online. (And nobody from Apple or Google, to the best of my knowledge, has addressed this, but you know, Silicon Valley doesn't give a fuck about anyone they can't extract economic rents from.)
And I use Linux for my desk and laptop computing, how the hell is that going to work if Apple or Google force me to use their toolchain instead of one I can use on all my devices such as 1Password.
This stinks of monopoly power, not security.
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“Pappa, als ik groot ben, en als jij groot bent, en als mamma groot is, dan gaan wij samen de trein rijden.”
Als ik de NS was zou ik een kleuterschool beginnen in Houten Castellum, daar zit duidelijk potentie voor het oplossen van het personeelstekort
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🎶 Twee schilderijen en een koekenpan
Zitten in mijn tassen en ik zweet er van
Roept de conducteur: dat dat kan!
Twee schilderijen en een koekenpan. 🎶
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Without the help from NGI via @nlnet, I don't think I would have had the opportunity to work for a long time bettering the Open Source early boot and Mobile ecosystems like I did.
I don't have the platform I used to have to publish a call to action, but still, do read the following open letter. We need more programs spending more smaller grants to smaller projects to allow them to grow stronger and better.
https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI
All of you in Europe, or who may have any way to get closer to direct action, please help them.
Thank you again to the folks at @nlnet, via #NGI for the previous opportunity.
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Reaching the final stages of the craft, there are less new features to show. Most of my work this week was sanding and burnishing edges, finishing stitching the feet, moulding them, hardening the inside and I got to gloss the "alive" parts (eyes and tongue). WE ARE ALMOST THERE!
#leathercraft #ttrpg
seekseek.org devlog #2
Today I'm fixing the last few issues remaining before I can start writing real-world scrapers for the new backend!
I think all the major outstanding issues have now been fixed, though I'm sure that as soon as I start trying to use it, I will find a few stragglers.
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So does CrowdStrike actually have any security value or is it just some dumb corporate compliance thing
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they say that the hardest problems in computer science are something about naming and caches.
they are wrong. the hardest problems in computer science are batshit managers and the resulting burnout.
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crowdstrike
the saddest part of today? lots of lawyers are getting contacted for lawsuits against ClownStrike, but they can't take the cases because their computers aren't working either ;_;
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Someone here have use for some rented (dedicated hardware) servers with a 2TB drive each? 
I just migrated my stuff off one of them and could let you play around with it if you wanted to learn about servers 'n stuff, or had some data to store temporarily.
I could set it to just auto-expire or whatever and hand you some credentials (although I can't give you access to the hoster interface so if you break it you'll need to message me to boot it into rescue, however I know it's fiddly bits so I can tell you everything you need to know about network configuration and how to make it boot, like how it doesn't do UEFI and needs BIOS booting).
(I also wouldn't mind paying for an extra month or two, those servers cost me like 15 bucks a month which doesn't hurt me that much tbh).
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Hey fellow #Linux users, despite the #CrowdStrike problem only affecting #Windows, this is not a windows problem.
This is an "automatic update that got forced onto everyone with insufficient testing while also having way too many permissions" problem.
If you think big corps wouldn't run something similar on Linux, I have a an NFT of a bridge to sell you.
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Roommate Alex just came over to tell me that his job has been thrown back into the dark ages and S-bucks corporate has told everyone to just give away free coffee untill they can fix it. (They can't fix it)
This sounds like today's gonna be white lady caffeine withdrawal meltdown city, which is terrible, but I'm cackling. God what a nightmare.
All hail the General Cloud Strike
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@timonsku and honestly literally none of this is anything to do with Windows at all. exactly the same problem could've occurred on Linux or macOS had CS's driver been written for those OSes and either of them had been as ubiquitous in the commercial space. it's just uninformed blathering by people who want to proselytise for their favourite OS.
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Ever since I met two very nice clowns on fedi I cannot use the word to disparage anything or anybody. Clowns are cool.
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The fediverse has performed well above my expectations today in terms of both snark and useful information.
10/10, no notes.
Well, aside from the lack of alt text on images. Provide image descriptions, people. It's not hard.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
